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Do You Agree?

7 hours ago 113.1K views 0 shares

The hierarchy of developer street cred, accurately depicted. Instagram followers? Cool story bro. Twitter followers? Getting warmer. Reddit followers? Now we're talking actual technical respect. But that single GitHub follower? That's someone who looked at your code, didn't immediately run away screaming, and hit follow anyway. That's basically a marriage proposal in developer terms. Social media clout means nothing when your repos are empty. But one person who willingly subscribed to your commit history? That's validation that actually matters. They're basically saying "I trust your code enough to get notifications about it." Peak achievement unlocked.

Competition Is Real

Git Agile Programming

3 days ago 208.4K views 0 shares

Oh honey, imagine being SO threatened by someone's GitHub grass being a more vibrant shade of green that you sabotage their entire career. Seven rounds of interviews, perfect score, and this person really said "nah, not enough toxic hustle culture vibes" and GHOSTED them. The pettiness is absolutely *chef's kiss*. "I refuse to be the second-best dev in my own standup" is the kind of unhinged energy that makes you wonder if they also check their commit count before going to bed at night. Eliminating competition before they even get a company badge? That's not gatekeeping, that's straight-up gate DEMOLISHING. The job market is already a dystopian nightmare, but sure, let's add some Hunger Games energy to it!

I Bet You Use Both

Git Webdev Programming

3 days ago 259.8K views 0 shares

Two developers meet cute at a bookstore bonding over their shared love of "the hub." Sweet, innocent moment. Then the logos reveal they're talking about completely different platforms. He's on PornHub (wait, what?), she's on GitHub. The awkwardness is palpable. Though let's be real, if you're a developer working from home, your browser history probably has both in the top 10 most visited sites. No judgment. We all need to push commits and, uh, decompress.

What For 1 Follower In Real Life

Git Webdev Programming

4 days ago 225.6K views 0 shares

Getting 1,000 Instagram followers? Cool, whatever. 100 Twitter followers? Meh, decent. 5 Reddit followers? Now we're talking—you're basically a celebrity because who even follows people on Reddit? But ONE GitHub follower? *Chef's kiss* You've ascended to godhood. Someone looked at your spaghetti code, your half-finished projects, and your README that just says "TODO," and thought, "Yes, I need MORE of this in my life." That's not just validation, that's a spiritual awakening. Move over influencers, we've got a developer who someone actually wants to stalk... I mean, follow... for their code commits.

Can People Even Tell The Difference Anymore

AI Git Programming Frontend Backend

4 days ago 275.8K views 0 shares

Can People Even Tell The Difference Anymore

You spend days crafting a pull request, refactoring everything, writing tests, adding documentation, making it absolutely beautiful. Then some bot rolls up and says "Full of AI slop, completely unhelpful" and you just... lose it. The real gut punch? Half the time the bot is right. With AI code generators flooding repos with generic solutions and copy-paste answers, human-written code is starting to look suspiciously similar to GPT's homework. We've reached the point where genuine effort gets flagged as synthetic garbage while actual AI slop sneaks through because it happened to use the right buzzwords. The Turing test has officially reversed: now we have to prove we're NOT robots.

Plz Don't Let These Ppl To Code For Production

Git Devops Programming

11 days ago 216.3K views 2 shares

Plz Don't Let These Ppl To Code For Production

You know you're in trouble when your coworker thinks "GetHub" is a perfectly logical name because it's related to Git. Meanwhile, the rest of the team is just vibing, pretending everything's fine while the codebase burns in the background. The real horror here isn't the confusion between Git and GitHub—it's that someone with this level of understanding is probably pushing directly to main right now. No pull requests, no code reviews, just pure chaos. And everyone's just... accepting it. That's the real crime. Fun fact: GitHub was actually almost named "Logical Awesome" before the founders settled on the current name. Imagine explaining to your coworker why it's not called "GetLogicalAwesome" instead.

Triple E Or Something

Microsoft Git Windows Programming

11 days ago 268.4K views 0 shares

Microsoft's product strategy in a nutshell: throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then pretend the blood puddles were part of the plan all along. Windows Phone? Dead. Skype? Somehow still technically alive but nobody's checking for a pulse. Windows 10? They promised it would be the "last version of Windows" then immediately started working on Windows 11. Meanwhile GitHub is just chilling in the corner, the golden child acquisition that actually worked out. Probably because Microsoft learned their lesson: buy successful things and don't touch them too much. Revolutionary strategy, really. The "EEE" reference is *chef's kiss* - that's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish," Microsoft's infamous strategy from the 90s where they'd adopt open standards, add proprietary features, then kill the competition. Now they're just extinguishing their own products. Character development, I guess?

So Who Is Sending Patches Now

Programming Git C++ Backend

12 days ago 226.8K views 0 shares

Someone tried to roast FFmpeg for having a messy codebase, and FFmpeg's official account hit back with the coldest comeback in open source history: "FFmpeg is written in C and assembly." Translation: "Yeah, our code looks rough because we're optimizing at the metal level while you're over there writing React components." Then they dropped the mic with "Talk is cheap, send patches." That's the open source equivalent of "put up or shut up." You want to complain? Cool, here's commit access. Show us how you'd do it better. The beauty here is that FFmpeg is literally the backbone of half the internet's video infrastructure. Netflix, YouTube, VLC—they all rely on this "messy" codebase. When you're processing millions of video frames per second, nobody cares if your variable names are pretty. Performance trumps aesthetics every single time.

How Do Backend Developers Show Proof Of Work? No UI, No Screenshots… So What's The Portfolio

Backend Webdev Programming Databases Frontend

13 days ago 207.3K views 0 shares

How Do Backend Developers Show Proof Of Work? No UI, No Screenshots… So What's The Portfolio

Backend devs living that invisible life where their entire career is just terminal windows and Postman screenshots. Meanwhile frontend folks are out here with their flashy portfolios full of animations and gradients, while backend engineers are like "here's a cURL command that returns JSON, trust me bro it's scalable." The struggle is real though. How do you flex your microservices architecture and database optimization skills in a portfolio? "Look at this beautiful 200 OK response!" doesn't quite hit the same as a parallax scrolling landing page. Your masterpiece is a perfectly normalized database schema that nobody will ever see or appreciate. The monitor is blank because the real work happens in the shadows—where APIs are crafted, servers are optimized, and race conditions are debugged at 3 AM. No visual proof, just vibes and a GitHub commit history that screams "I know what I'm doing."

You Created A Monster

Programming Git

13 days ago 168.0K views 0 shares

Nothing quite like the sweet taste of revenge through code. Got rejected by your dream company? No problem—just build a free, open-source competitor that slowly eats away at their market share. They didn't want you on their team, so now you're the final boss they have to face in the marketplace. It's the ultimate developer power move: turning rejection into motivation to create something that directly competes with the people who turned you down. And the best part? You get to watch them squirm as your GitHub stars climb while their licensing fees drop. Hell hath no fury like a developer scorned.

Thanks Fellow Devs

Git Webdev Javascript Programming Python

14 days ago 229.6K views 0 shares

Imagine being so financially challenged that your entire tech stack runs on the generosity of strangers who decided to code libraries in their free time. And what's your contribution to these digital saints? A measly GitHub star. Not a donation. Not even a coffee. Just a virtual gold sticker that costs absolutely nothing. Open-source maintainers out here debugging at 3 AM, dealing with entitled issue reports like "it doesn't work pls fix," and getting compensated with... *checks notes* ...internet points. Meanwhile you're building a million-dollar startup on their free labor. The audacity! The shamelessness! The... reality of modern software development! But hey, at least you clicked that star button. That's basically the same as paying rent, right? 🌟

Foss

Programming Devops Git Backend

14 days ago 215.7K views 0 shares

Every open-source developer's existential crisis in three panels. You start thinking you're building something neat, maybe a fun little utility or a clever library. Then reality slaps you with the uncomfortable truth: someone's entire production stack will depend on this in 24 months, and you'll be maintaining it for free while they make millions. The FOSS lifecycle: "Cool side project" → "Wait, 50,000 downloads?" → "Oh god, I'm now responsible for global infrastructure and my only compensation is GitHub stars." Welcome to the beautiful nightmare where your weekend hobby becomes critical infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies who won't even sponsor your coffee fund.

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